Reaching 40 countries in one place
Brianna McKinney says for many people Denver is a lonely place. For community, they might go...
Resources for Evangelism
Holistic Restoration: Homeless Men Saved and Enter Recovery
This is a story about two men who found themselves at the end of their rope, desperate for something more in life.
Creating Connections Beyond Sunday Morning
Relationships are critical for leaders. Our culture is crying out for authenticity, community and transparency. As...
10 Practical Tips for Living on Mission in Your Community
Living missionally in your community requires intentionality, a willing heart and dependency on the Holy Spirit....
The intentional life of a Christian
The Christian life is not about me living for Jesus; it’s about Jesus living His life...
10 ways to make the most of Easter this year
Easter is arguably the most celebrated day of the year for Christians. Churches are usually packed...
Sunday Gatherings Are Gone – Now What?
By Dhati Lewis If you’re a church leader right now, I’m guessing you were never given...
The church planter’s manual for engaging your neighbor
By Matt Hess They found a lot of polite ways to say “no” to us over...
Loving our community in dark times
By Dale Huntington This is a historical time for all of us. The last time our...
Mark Clifton’s Coronavirus thoughts for small to mid-size churches
By Mark Clifton These are hard, unpredictable times. Many of us have been caught off guard...
What should we do for our home worship gatherings?
The new coronavirus has forced us all into a new normal. Many of us find ourselves...
7 Things to consider for your home worship gatherings
There is nothing that can stop the Church. In a season where large gatherings are limited,...
Responding in love during the coronavirus pandemic
By Min Lee I’m accustomed to making changes slowly. I’m Korean American, and I helped replant...
6 Tips on livestreaming your Sunday service
In a season where large group gatherings are scarce, God is kind to give us a...
Kevin Ezell: If I could do it over
If you are pastoring with your whole heart and really going after it each day, it...
Seven tough questions for a church planter’s spiritual inventory
Trainers of church planters can easily rattle off the names of guys who, sadly, didn’t make...
Missionary flow and church planting
In the North American, post-Christian context in which we now live, we can’t plant churches by...
Disciple-making environments and church planting
Like many aspects of the Christian life — kingdom, mission, evangelism, even the gospel — we...
Kingdom thinking and church planting
As stated in the last post, our Kingdom Thinking (Christology) should determine our Missional Engagement, (missiology)...
The ‘Physician’ follow-up question pathway
How 6 minutes, 4 questions, and deep answers opened our hearts for the people in the...
Engage 24 Workshops inspire evangelism leadership
https://vimeo.com/181640517 Help expand the evangelistic reach of your church, and be challenged by pastors of some...
The Send Conference is a two-day gathering of local churches that want to see a movement...
https://vimeo.com/195315011 Disciple-making is the sum total of what Christ came to do. Here, John O. introduces...
When Rich Perez was growing up in his New York City neighborhood, he always heard that...
https://vimeo.com/236827201 The GC (Gospel Conversations) Challenge is an opportunity to join together as churches, associations and...
What role does disciple making play in planting churches?
https://vimeo.com/241774677,https://vimeo.com/241774677 What role does disciple making play in planting churches? , What role does disciple making...
Everybody thinks they hate evangelism, but what if that was because they didn’t understand how evangelism...
Spiritual journal discipleship
Church planters get pulled in many directions at once. The task of discipling men can get...
9 characteristics of a church planter: Disciple making
Recently I had the “privilege” of shopping at Home Depot. I say “privilege” because, depending on...
Top 10 Posts of 2017: #2 Six Ways to Practice Hospitality
1. Reserve a night for “Neighbor Night” Years ago, when my wife and I started talking...
Top 10 Posts of 2017: #7 Co-vocational Church Planting: Rethinking Vocation
The idea of rethinking vocation must start with considering the sacred/secular divide, or what some people...
There are many reasons you’d want to attend an established church—some good reasons and some, well,...
Co-vocational church planting: Rethinking vocation
The idea of rethinking vocation must start with considering the sacred/secular divide, or what some people...
Launch your congregation into living a life on mission wherever God has placed them at namb.net/startingpoint.
The practice of hospitality: Your home on mission
To develop healthy disciple-making practices, we must recapture the art of hospitality. Our castle or His...
If you’ve heard me speak or if you’ve read any of my books, what I’m about...
Last week I introduced you to, or reminded you of, a concept called identity amnesia: Christians...
Why celebration is a tool for multiplication
You’ve heard it said that you are what you celebrate and there is nowhere that is truer than...
Why membership is a tool for multiplication
Recently, my wife and I were driving back home, and decided to check out the country...
How to send mission teams well
Mission teams can be a tremendous help to a church planter, but often they become a...
I am a huge fan of great mission team experiences. Over the past 13 years of...
Why conversion growth is crucial in church planting
Healthy things grow. If you’ve been in ministry for long at all, you’ve probably heard that...
How to get a church to engage in a community
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This quote, most often attributed to Peter Drucker, has been used...
Transformational relationships with God
The most important things to measure in your church plant are often the hardest things to...
Is your calling based on identity?
Every Christian is called to be a missionary, and this calling extends wherever we are. Every...
Gravity is not something we can see or feel. However, it’s constantly at work. Gravity works...
5 ways to protect the vision from God
All people protect things that matter to them. Be it a wedding ring, a picture drawn...
Most popular of 2016: #1 Five ways to engage: The City
The North American Mission Board is blessed by a wide array of voices that speak to...
Most popular of 2016: #7 Five ways to engage: The campus
The North American Mission Board is blessed by a wide array of voices that speak to...
Most popular in 2016: #8 Redefining success: Gospel conversations
The North American Mission Board is blessed by a wide array of voices that speak to...
Collegiate Church Planting: Developing leaders
Have you ever had that “aha” moment? It’s that moment something suddenly becomes clear and crystalized....
Bivocational church planting: ReThinking It
By Brad Brisco Over the past several years there has been an increasing interest in church...
What is bivocational church planting?
Bivocational—it’s an interesting word. In fact, our spellcheck tells us it’s not a word. Even our...
Who are bivocational church planters?
Here’s a trustworthy saying: Whoever desires to be an overseer desires a noble task, but whoever...
Bivocational church planting: Why?
Tick-tock-tick-tock. . .picture a ticking alligator and a scared, one-handed pirate. Some of you may remember...
Why Christians should care about politics
During the course of a presidential campaign, it is common to hear evangelicals, especially younger ones,...
What is an arepa and what does it have to do with starting churches? Fabian Perea,...
Five years after being planted, Valley Life Church has given birth to three other churches, which...
The fallacy of our spiritual gifts: Part 1
Brett and Noelle are busy penciling in 200 dots in the new member’s class at church....
Sending well: Developing missionaries in your church
“Lord of the harvest, please send workers! My community is ready…I just need help! In Jesus’...
How to share the message of Christ with our neighbors
How in the world do we, as believers, carry out the Great Commission? Jesus wasn’t joking...
How to understand your neighbor
I was born and raised in the southern part of the United States. South Carolina to...
When I was growing up, I loved watching “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.” I loved the trolley that...
Stories from the frontlines: Dustin Nimmo
This week we interviewed three practitioners serving on the field as church planters. These are their...
Stories from the front lines: Whitney Clayton
This week we interviewed three practitioners serving on the field as church planters. These are their...
Why church planters need long-term vision
I’m always stunned by the mess kids can make. Give them 30 minutes alone in a...
Kingdom focused church planting
Have you ever missed something in conversation? You know, times when you’ve assumed something a person...
Multiplication: Developing leaders
In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul has a lot to say. He speaks...
Multiplication: Making disciples
Disciple making is the foundation of church planting. If you want to lead your church to...
Brotherhood: God’s prayer for relationships
My phone usually pings around 7 a.m. on Sunday morning. The most recent one read: “Praying for...
Five ways to engage: the campus
1. Reach students with depth. As we engaged the campus a generation or two ago, we...
Five ways to engage: the suburbs
In recent years, increased attention has been given to the city centers of our world. This...
1. Learn the city.Find the best sources for learning about your city. There are likely newspapers,...
In Tuesday’s post, we discussed identifying the needs of your community. Recognizing opportunities to show mercy...
Needs are all around us. Some are obvious and overwhelmingly urgent, such as a crisis situation....
A growing trend in evangelical circles is the emphasis on being socially conscious, which includes caring...